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TV Message to Sen. Obama from Nurses, Doctors: Single-Payer Reform Only Cure for Rising Healthcare Costs Friday, August 17, 2007 : In the last of a series of three broadcast and Internet ads in Iowa, the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee and Physicians for a National Health Program call on Sen. Barack Obama to support a single-payer, guaranteed healthcare system as the only effective cure for ever-skyrocketing healthcare costs....
Posted: Sat, Aug 18, 2007 8:28am PDT
Rescue Workers Killed, Injured at Utah Mine Friday, August 17, 2007 : Three rescue workers were killed and at least six others injured Thursday night as they struggled to reach six coal miners who have been trapped in a Utah mine at least 1,500 feet below ground since Aug. 6....
Posted: Fri, Aug 17, 2007 6:50am PDT
Philippines Not Prepared for Contraception Phase-out Thursday, August 16, 2007 : A US-sponsored birth control program that provides free birth control pills, condoms, and injectibles to the Philippines will end in 2008, causing concern among family planning advocates. The US Agency for International Development (USAID) is slowly phasing out the donation program, which has provid......
Posted: Fri, Aug 17, 2007 6:32am PDT
Nurses, Doctors Challenge Edwards to Endorse Real Reform - Iowa Ads Call for Leadership on Guaranteed Healthcare for All Thursday, August 16, 2007 : The California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee and Physicians for a National Health Program today launched the first in a series of broadcast and Internet ads in Iowa challenging the leading Democratic candidates to take a more meaningful stand on health care by endorsing a single-payer style, guaranteed healthcare for all, system....
Posted: Fri, Aug 17, 2007 6:27am PDT
In Thought and Action August 2007 COMPASSION & CHOICES: IN THOUGHT AND ACTION 08.07...
Posted: Thu, Aug 16, 2007 12:37pm PDT
Millions of toxic toys recalled: The nightmarish reality of global capitalism Thursday, August 16, 2007 :The world’s largest toy maker, Mattel Corporation, announced August 14 that it was recalling nearly 19 million toys worldwide, half of them in the US, because of the dangers they pose to children. Some 436,000 toy cars made in China were withdrawn because they are covered in lead paint, while more than 18,000,000 other toys, also made in China, are being recalled because they contain small, powerful magnets that could do great damage if swallowed....
Posted: Thu, Aug 16, 2007 7:57am PDT
10,000 Maryland Home Child Care and Health Care Providers Win Bargaining Rights Thursday, August 16, 2007 : Some 10,000 Maryland home child care providers and home health care workers won bargaining rights earlier this month when Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) signed executive orders granting the workers the right to join unions. Says O'Malley: If workers want to elect a union so their voices can be heard we should not stand in the way of that....
Posted: Thu, Aug 16, 2007 7:55am PDT
An Appeal for the Hurricanes Katrina and Rita International Tribunal 
"Thank you for sharing your story," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is reported as saying to a woman in New Orleans who pled with her and other lawmakers for help. (The woman, in tears, saw them as her last resort.)
http://www.nola.com/timespic/stories/index.ssf?/base/news-3/118715700954460.xml&coll=1
"Thank you for sharing?!"
Below, Cynthia McKinney sends a message regarding this news item along with a advice about how to continue helping the victims of both Katrina and a government t...
Posted: Wed, Aug 15, 2007 11:59am PDT
Search For Six Trapped Coal Miners in Utah Continues For A Ninth Day Tuesday, August 14, 2007 :
Ellen Smith, editor of Mine Safey and Health News, discusses the mine collapse, the weakening of mine safety regulations under President Clinton and President Bush, and the history of the mine's owner -- Murray Energy Corporation....
Posted: Tue, Aug 14, 2007 9:51am PDT
Poverty and impunity undermine human rights in a divided world (Mexico) Poverty and impunity were identified as the two most alarming trends affecting human rights in a divided world, concluded a panel of eminent persons at the Opening Ceremony of the 2007 International Council meeting of Amnesty International in Mexico today.Under the theme 'Human Rights in a Divided World', distinguished figures recalled the great hope, which emerged after the fall of communism in the early 1990s, that there would be a real global consensus on how to tackle the world's...
Posted: Mon, Aug 13, 2007 7:27am PDT
Crandall Canyon Mine Owner Murray: Nuts Over Talking Squirrel Saturday, August 11, 2007: If you’ve been following the news about the six Utah coal miners trapped nearly a week ago in the collapse at the Crandall Canyon Mine near Huntington, you’ve seen Robert Murray. The CEO of Murray Energy, the parent company of Utah American, which runs the nonunion mine, has found the camera’s spotlight, seemingly whenever it’s been shining at the disaster site....
Posted: Sat, Aug 11, 2007 9:26am PDT
While Miners Wait 1,500 Feet Beneath Solid Rock, Owner Blasts Mine Safety Friday, August 10, 2007 : The owner of the Utah mine, where six coal miners remain trapped following a mine collapse Monday morning, spoke out against mine safety improvements proposed following 2006's Sago Mine disaster that killed a dozen miners. As of Thursday afternoon, rescuers continued to drill a two-and-a-half-inch hole from above to communicate with the mines and deliver food and water if the six are still alive....
Posted: Fri, Aug 10, 2007 7:40am PDT
China Chided, U.S. Conducts Business As Usual Originally From New America Media
Friday, August 10, 2007 : China has been in the news lately for its contaminated exports, but the U.S. is also producing products that contain hazardous chemicals, reports NAM writer, Donal Brown. Brow is a former journalism teacher. The recent flurry of news reports over the Chinese exports of contaminated consumer products raises the specter of dangerous U.S. products long marketed in the U.S. and around the world....
Posted: Fri, Aug 10, 2007 7:07am PDT
Crossing the Border to Sell Blood Originally From New America Media
Thursday, August 9, 2007 : MCALLEN, Texas – Olga García, 33, is one of hundreds of Mexicans who cross the border into the United States to donate their blood in exchange for a few dollars. Working eight hour days in the textile factories of Piedras Negras, Coahuila, García earns 620 pesos per week, the equivalent of $56....
Posted: Thu, Aug 9, 2007 8:49am PDT
The Great L.A. Healthcare Rally this Saturday - HUGE Rally for Single Payer Healthcare Wednesday, August 8, 2007 : A coalition of registered nurses, physicians and consumer groups will rally this Saturday in Los Angeles in support of Sen. Sheila Kuehl's ground-breaking bill, SB840, which proposes guaranteed healthcare on a single-payer model. The L.A. event is the culmination of 365 local events held around the state this year, in support of single payer healthcare, one held every day....
Posted: Thu, Aug 9, 2007 8:46am PDT
DPA to Play Key Role in First Annual DC Recovery Weekend Wednesday, August 8, 2007 : For the first time ever this September, Washington, DC, will commemorate national Recovery Month, bringing together people in recovery, service providers, and policy advocates to show that treatment works and recovery can happen if the city invests in it....
Posted: Wed, Aug 8, 2007 6:14pm PDT
AFL-CIO Executive Council Backs Universal Health Care, Political Mobilization and More Wednesday, August 8, 2007 : The Rev. Jesse Jackson joins Rose Ann DeMoro, CNA/NNOC executive director, at the AFL-CIO Executive Council meeting in Chicago. DeMoro was elected to the council today. Before heading to Chicago's Solider Field for tonight's AFL-CIO Presidential Candidates Forum, members of the AFL-CIO Executive Council outlined the next steps in the battle to win quality health care for all Americans, developed plans to mobilize a force of 1,000 activists as part of "An Econom...
Posted: Wed, Aug 8, 2007 6:56am PDT
New Mexico Medical Marijuana Program Moves Forward Wednesday, August 8, 2007 : One month after New Mexico’s medical cannabis law went into effect, the program is moving forward with the Department of Health registering patients and appointing advisors. The state health department issued the first temporary patient identification cards July 1, and now 46 applications have been received with 17 patients registered....
Posted: Wed, Aug 8, 2007 6:45am PDT
US: Six coal miners trapped underground in Utah Monday, August 6, 2007 :A powerful cave-in Monday morning trapped six workers in an underground coal mine in central Utah. As of this writing rescuers were still trying to reach the miners, who are believed to be 1,500 feet below ground some four miles from the mine’s entrance. As of Monday night—more than 15 hours after the initial mine collapse—searchers had made no contact with the miners....
Posted: Tue, Aug 7, 2007 8:30am PDT
Your Money or Your Life: Health Care in America Saturday, August 4, 2007 : It's clear that health care is going to be a crucial issue in the 2008 elections. One of today's seminars at YearlyKos tackled both the present crisis and the potential next steps, in a passionate and sometimes contentious debate. "Health care reform will take center stage this election cycle. You can count on it....
Posted: Sun, Aug 5, 2007 10:47am PDT
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